Monticello Fair Dates and Local Oddities
Home news items list Monticello events from August 24 to 28 at the Jones County fair. The column records numerous Cedar Rapids and Anamosa visits, shopping ads from Deutrick's and Hanken's, coal and roofing notes, and several residents traveling to and from nearby towns including Castor Cascade Hopkinton and Wyomin.
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Local notes highlight visits and events in Scotch Grove area
Readable items show visitors from Anamosa Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. engagements trips and family news. local sales and lawn drier offers. fair coverage at Anamosa. August cleanup sale and lard promotions. regional travel to Elkader McGregor Heights Hoopwink town and Fort Des Moines encampment.
Nonpartisan candidate J W Jamison visits city for bench race
Attorney J W Jamison of Cedar Rapids attended town events last Tuesday as a non partisan candidate for the district bench. Monticello tomato display touted as finest, grown by Newton Parrott with claims of exceptional flavor and size. Some spectators jokingly credit Parrott's wife with the crop.
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J. W. Jamison
Cedar Rapids
Corn Canning Factory Ready for Operation
The corn canning factory is ready for business and will begin work soon. Those planning to go to Oxford Junction tomorrow should meet on First street with automobiles at 12 30 o clock as the Monticello contingent will be heralded by a band. Mrs J W Nelson and daughter Marjorie returned from Billings Montana last Saturday evening. They visited with farmer’s daughter Mrs Nicholas Nelson. Charles D Chase left for his farm in southern Canada last Monday evening to supervise the wheat harvest. Mrs John Heisey and daughter Pearl went to Dubuque this morning and will return this evening with Master David Heisey. Misses Purlinsa Waugh and Irma Thoeni went to Dubuque last Monday for a two or three day visit. This is Miss Waugh’s annual vacation from The Express office. Halstead Carpenter of Wyoming has been in a Cedar Rapids hospital this past week with a strained shoulder and will be discharged without operation. Miss Blanche Hunter of Anamosa visited Mr and Mrs A I Jackson last Monday and Tuesday and will soon depart for Colorado where she has been elected to teach in a Colorado high school.
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Train carries crowd to Anamosa fair from Fayette
A special train ran from Fayette to Anamosa this morning for those desiring to attend the Anamosa fair. A good sized crowd came up from Wyoming and transferred here for Anamosa.
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Vacation halts sermons at Methodist church two weeks
Rev. Roy V. Porter will take a short vacation and there will be no preaching at the Methodist Episcopal church for the next two weeks. Sunday school and Epworth League meetings continue as usual.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
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Dry Weather Brings Complaints As Corn Fires On Light Soils
Farmers report dry spell reducing milk in dairy herds and soil moisture dropping. Miss Fern Neal wed J Edward Tauney at Osmond Nebraska. Lucien Rice attends funeral of Manly Rice in Council Bluffs. Monticello band tours Wyoming while advertising the Jones County fair. Abe Adams injured a rib in a dray wagon mishap at work.
Kort relative visit sick with typhoid in Rockford hospital
George Kort who traveled to Rockford two weeks ago to visit relatives is ill with typhoid fever and hospitalized there. His father stayed with him last Monday and Tuesday while his mother left for Rockford yesterday morning. The fever has subsided and officials hope the illness will not worsen.
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George Kort
Rockford
Albery suits settled win widow gains Monticello land
The suits by Cora Sandhouse Albery against Lucetta Albery to recover property are settled. The widow receives the residence and ten acres north of Monticello, 26 acres at Canton, the personal property of the husband, including 860 dollars in an Anamosa bank.
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Samuel Albery
Lucetta Albery
Monticello
Canton
Anamosa Bank
Auto overturn near county farm injures passenger
The J. S. Hall automobile, driven near the county farm last Sunday evening, failed to respond to the steering wheel and collided with an earth bank at the roadside. Mrs. M. W. Herrick, riding in the back seat, was thrown forward and sprained her ankle. None of the occupants were thrown from the vehicle.
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J. S. Hall
M. W. Herrick
Street paving under contract nearly complete
The street paving project is practically finished and improves appearances, but many lot owners struggle to meet their share of the cost. Some have had to abandon needed home repairs after saving money for the improvements, facing the public rights taking precedence over individual interests.
Grass fire injures Delhi boy as flames consume clothes
Russell Whites, seven, son of Mr and Mrs R P White of Delhi, started a grass fire whose flames burned his clothes. A passerby doused him with water. Doctors expect survival but note likely disfigurement.
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R. P. White
Delhi
Amputation Follows Hand Injury at Springfield Hospital
News from Bolivar Missouri reports Mrs. Charles Davis formerly of Langworthy had her arm amputated after a butcher knife wound to the palm opened a cancerous infection that grew malignant. Her daughter Mrs. Dunning and sister Mrs. Harvey Smith of Langworthy were informed.
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Bolivar
Missouri
Langworthy
Springfield
Gollmer Brothers Circus to Return to Monticello Friday
Monticello readers learn a three ring show will pitch tents on Friday September 4 as the Gollmer Brothers circus brings 26 cars with a 7 elephants and 7 camels. Advance agent Fred A. Morgan visited town to arrange the appearance and local residents welcome the returning performers after about ten years away.
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Death of Mrs Magee of Monticello and Winthrop
Mrs Margaret Mary De Long Magee wife of F M Magee of this city died last Thursday at her daughter Mrs Mauds Woods home in Winthrop Minnesota after a brief illness causing by gall stones or a liver tumor She was born July 9 1849 near Indianapolis Indiana and married July 4 1860 in Jones county She leaves ten children and spent most of her life in this county with years at Monticello Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church Interment in Oakwood cemetery many relatives friends and neighbors attended from Center Junction Onslow Anamosa and Appleton Minnesota
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F. M. Mages
Mauds Woods
Winthrop
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Rosa Waltermayer
Sioux City
Harry Magee
Atlanta
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George Courtney
Joseph Leggett
Calvin Scofield
Eiva Balas
Clara Townsend
J. B. Moses
H. W. Shipley
Onslow
John Millanp
Mra. Green
Anamosa
William Straw
August 1804 Monticello News Highlights
Readings from The Monticello Express summarize births deaths marriages and notable incidents in August 1804. Events include several obituaries for local residents, a new town well completion, a pair of marriages, a foot injury from a watermelon incident, a safe robbery, and a trip of residents moving from Milwaukee to Monticello.
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